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An encyclopedia of the canals and rivers of England and Wales, including historical data, provided by Jim Shead, Waterways Writer and Photographer.

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British Pathé Film Clips of Rivers and Canals A new feature giving access to newsreel film clips from the early twentieth century that can be searched by date or waterway to find the appropriate link to the Pathé website and a listing of Waterway Events of 2013 are now available. If you are organising a UK canal or river event that you would like added to this list please let me know.

Today's Featured Waterway Photo

- Stratford-upon-Avon River Avon
For more information see Upper Avon.

If you are a newcomer to the subject, or this web site, you may want to start with my Introduction pages. These give an introduction to this website, the UK Waterways System, its history and to inland boating on canals or rivers. The Boat Listing, which now includes Broads Authority boats, added in 2009, was last updated in May 2013. See also the Most Popular Boat Names listing, based on the 89,000 boats in the Boat Listing.

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Books, videos, DVDs and links to other canal shopping sites.

For non-waterway travel photographs see www.jim-shead.net

I am also webmaster for the following waterways sites Railway & Canal Historical Society
IWA Peterborough Branch
The Association of Nene River Clubs
House of York

All about the Inland Waterways Association (IWA) click here

Quote of the day No 12

Saturday 25 May 2013

We were discovering that canal cruising aboard ‘Cressy’ did not depend for its fascination upon summer weather. Bare branches dark against a winter sky, and a flight of rooks beating homeward, wind-tossed like charred scraps of paper; the rich bloom of new ploughland, great honey-coloured ricks new thatched, and the stillness of sky-reflecting pools—such pictures can convey but little of rewards as great as any that summer had brought us. It was a new and unfailing delight, after standing for hours at the tiller in the keen air rich with the scents of late autumn, to moor in some lonely place, close the hatches and retreat to the sitting-cabin, an island of warmth and comfort in the gathering dark where familiar objects, the many-coloured bindings of beloved books, the gleaming copper kettle and outspread tea-things, awoke to new and gracious life in the lamplight. To lie in bed of a night or in the drowsy warmth of a hot bath and listen to the wind rushing overhead was to be reminded of Frances Cornford’s poem ‘The Country Bedroom’:

‘My room’s a square and candle-lighted boat,
In the surrounding depths of night afloat,
My windows are the portholes, and the seas
The sound of rain in the dark apple-trees.’

When curtains were drawn it was often hard to believe that our room really was ‘a square and candle-lighted boat’, whose windows looked out each night upon a strange darkness.

L. T. C. Rolt – Narrow Boat

For more information about these daily quotations see About the Quote of the Day.

Bantam Tug for Sale Has brand new wheelhouse see separate web page for details.

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